Mastering Kotlin

Simplifying dependency management with Kotlin

Now that we've migrated our build.gradle files to make use of the Kotlin Gradle DSL, let's improve the way in which we define dependencies and build constants. More specifically, we are going to use Kotlin object declarations to define our dependencies so they can be defined once and reused elsewhere. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. To start, create a new directory named buildSrc within the root project directory:

2. Next, we're going to create the following two files within the buildSrc directory:
   • buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
   • buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Dependencies.kt

This buildSrc directory ...